This photo was taken on January 18th 2017 in Taung Soe village, Si Pyay village tract, Win Yay Township, Dooplaya District. This photo shows a local clinic in Taung Soe village. According to villagers, there are not enough health workers at this clinic and the health workers do not always stay at the clinic so villagers continue to face troubles when they are sick. [Photo: KHRG][80]

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This photo was taken on November 29th 2015 in Tha Main Dwut village, Tha Main Dwut Village Tract, Kawkareik Township, Dooplaya District. It shows a clinic constructed by the Myanmar government health department. However, since the clinic was constructed there have been no health workers or medicines. For these reasons, villagers couldn’t use it. [Photo: KHRG][81]

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Toungoo (Taw Oo) District

This photo was taken on June 6th 2016, in Cow Thaw Cow village, Hon Thaw Plo village tract, Thandaunggyi Township, Toungoo District. It shows a KDHW clinic with health administrators who operate under the KNU health department. The health workers do not have enough medicines however they try to take care of local villagers as much as they can. [Photo: KHRG][82]

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This photo was taken on November 11th 2016 in Tha Main Dwut village, Tha Main Dwut village tract, Kawkareik Township, Dooplaya District. It shows members of the Backpack Health Worker Team (BPHWT) trying to help sick villagers by giving them medical treatment for free in Tha Main Dut village. [Photo: KHRG][83]

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This photo was taken in September 2014. It shows a clinic that was built by the Myanmar government in order to improve the health of the villagers in Kah Lee Kee village, Kyainseikgyi Township, Dooplaya District. In the past year villagers report that they have suffered from various diseases and that some villagers have died for treatable diseases. However, they report that the health situation is getting better compared to the past because now the clinic is available in the village. [Photo: KHRG][84]

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This photo was taken on April 20th 2014 in Kyoh Kah Loh village, Htee Th’Daw Htah village tract, Buh Tho Township, Hpapun District. This photo shows a clinic constructed by an unknown NGO, with some involvement from the Myanmar government. The clinic was completed in 2012. This clinic aims to help villagers to get access to healthcare close to their area but until now villagers have not seen any medicine, only clinic construction. Villagers at the time this photo was taken did not have any information about whether they will get medicine in this clinic or not. [Photo: KHRG][85]

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Toungoo (Taw Oo) District

This photo was taken on December 27th 2014 at Leik Tho Town, Thandaunggyi Township, Toungoo District. It shows a free healthcare service provided at the public hospital. The service is led by the local KNU government and medical specialists. [Photo: KHRG][86]

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Hpapun (Mutraw) District

This photo was taken on April 19th 2014 in Meh Lah Htah area, Htee Th’Daw Htah village tract, Bu Tho Township, Hpapun District. It shows a women suffering from an unknown illness. She cannot access proper treatment or prescription medicine due to the cost of travel and treatment, and the distance to the hospital. Instead her husband is making a traditional herbal and leaf medicine for her. [Photo: KHRG][87]

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IDP villagers in Lu Thaw Township, Hpapun District are shown here on March 4th 2009, having come to D--- IDP camp in order to receive medical treatment from a mobile Karen medical team. Such aid, delivered by local Karen staff working with small mobile medical teams which obtain supplies from across the border in Thailand remains crucial means by which IDP communities are able to address their health needs. [Photo: KHRG][88]

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This picture, taken on September 10th 2009, shows 39 years old convict porter Maung Tha---, who escaped after being taken from prison and forced to carry supplies for LIB #212. Maung Tha--- had been serving a 7 years term. He was sent to act as a porter on December 5th 2008. He told KHRG he escaped because he could no longer bear the heavy loads and verbal and physical abuse by soldiers. On his right shoulder can be seen scars from sores developed while carrying his loads. [Photo: KHRG][89]

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Hpapun (Mutraw) District

This photo from a 2000 KHRG report shows the body of villager Saw Maw Toh from K--- village in western Lu Thaw township, Hpapun District. Saw Maw Toh, aged 40, had fled with other villagers when Light Infantry Division #66 destroyed their village, but then died of illness in the forest because there was no medicine. He leaves a wife and 2 children aged 1 and 9. [Photo: KHRG][90]

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Nyaunglebin (Kler Lwee Htoo) District

This photo from a 2000 KHRG report shows a sick villager staying in his hiding place Mone Township, Nyaunglebin District, unable to leave to access medicine. Tatmadaw troops had been sweeping their area since November, causing many villagers to go into hiding. This villager has been sick but has not got medicine. Thousands of internally displaced villagers were living in hiding in the forested hills with little food and no medicines during this time, dodging Tatmadaw patrols which systematically destroyed their shelters and food supplies. [Photo: KHRG][91]

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Hpapun (Mutraw) District

This photo is of a villager in Hpapun District, 1994, who was shot from behind by a Tatmadaw patrol as he was fleeing to avoid being taken as a porter. The bullet entry wound is in the back of his right thigh, and the larger exit wound on the front of his thigh. He is having the wound cleaned with a needle and a string soaked in antiseptic, without anaesthetic. His bandage is a rag held on with a bamboo legging. [Photo: KHRG][92]

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Dooplaya District

This photo shows a mother and her son in Kwih Kaneh Khoh village, Kyainseikgyi Township, Dooplaya District, November 1996. On 27th October 1996 a column of Tatmadaw troops attacked and looted Kwih Kaneh Khoh village, Kyainseikgyi Township, Dooplaya District (southwest of Kyaikdon). The village was completely undefended and the troops marched into all 30 houses and looted everything, leaving the villagers with nothing. Just afterwards this woman’s son fell sick, and when this photo was taken 3 weeks later he could no longer move. Tatmadaw does not allow medical supplies to enter this area. [Photo: KHRG][93]

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This photo from a report by KHRG in 1997 shows Maung PQ---, aged 28, a Muslim villager from Myawaddy Township, Dooplaya/Hpa-an District, who was taken as a frontline porter in 1996 even though he was already sick with malaria. Two weeks later he collapsed under his 40-kilo load of mortar shells, so he was kicked and beaten unconscious by the commander and kicked down a slope to die. Other porters escaped later and returned to find him and carry him to Thailand. Doctors operated 3 times, drained 1.5 litres of pus from his arm and thigh, and found he had a permanent corneal scar, a broken rib, serious damage to his arm, and the muscles of his thigh were so badly beaten that he will never walk properly again, all from the beatings. He was not even strong enough to be interviewed until one month later. [Photo:KHRG][94]

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This photo, taken in eastern Nyaunglebin/Hpapun District, shows a woman who had fled her hill village due to Tatmadaw attacks in 1997. The woman is hiding in a forest shelter and had been down with serious dysentery for several days. She had no medicine, and could die from this illness.[Photo: KHRG][95]

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Thaton (Doo Tha Htoo) District

This photo from a 1994 KHRG report shows a sick and malnourished baby Karen girl in Thaton district. Infant mortality in these areas was extremely high due to Tatmadaw offensives, looting, extortion, and the Tatmadaw blockade against any medicines entering this ‘insurgent’ area. [Photo: KHRG][96]